generate graphs for sa2 output

[Carol Yu]

Hi, I have crontab job setup for sa2 on hourly basis. I am wondering if there is any tools or software that can take the output of sa2 output and produce graphics on that? I feel copy and paste to Excel is not a very nice idea.

Thanks a lot,
Carol

[Abdul Rahiman]

There aren't many ready to use graphing tools for sar output.
I have used sarcheck before (www.sarcheck.com - I think there is an evaulation version f0r 30 days).
Otherwise your friend(??) is MS excel,
Please check this thread out..there was some discussion before.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=217965

[Michael Gleibman]

I would probably use rrdtool graphing capabilities to create the graphs, so you'll need some kind of interface/converter between sar files and the rrd database files...

rrdtool lives here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/index.html

studying the tool takes time, but the benefits are well worth it, I think...

Some of the older UNIX systems (SYS V) used to have sag command exactly for graphing purposes, but I'm not sure it's available on HP-UX...

Hope it helps,

Misha